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New comment by jensnockert in "Ask HN: Were you happy moving your API from REST to GraphQL?"

jensnockert — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 13:09:50 +0000

Yes, it's generally quite a bit nicer. It's not as nice as I hoped, but it's better. The old APIs are JSONAPI-style.

The main disappointment is that input types are not nearly as expressive as output types.

New comment by jensnockert in "Apple's Statement on Meltdown and Spectre"

jensnockert — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 11:36:04 +0000

There is already a fix for 10.12, it was pushed in December. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208331

New comment by jensnockert in "Ask HN: Do you think Electron is good for building Desktop Apps?"

jensnockert — Tue, 02 May 2017 11:48:20 +0000

It makes it easier to get started, and you can often kinda-ish reuse some effort from your webpage at the cost of bad performance and non-native look/feel.

It's a trade-off for me, I use it when the trade-off feels right.

New comment by jensnockert in "Ask HN: Which non-technology book has influenced you the most and why?"

jensnockert — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:49:51 +0000

"The Twelve Kingdoms", by Fuyumi Ono. We'll count all the volumes as one.

Maybe I read them at just the right time in just the right place, but if you are in the right mood it tells you a story about leadership, a kernel of intersectionality, and most importantly why it's so hard for leadership figures to change the way they are headed even if they can clearly see that they are heading straight into an iceberg.

There's also an animated TV-series by NHK that I can recommend.

New comment by jensnockert in "Ask HN: What's stopping you from using Firefox as your primary browser?"

jensnockert — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 23:11:36 +0000

Nothing, I use Firefox as my main browser.

New comment by jensnockert in "Ask HN: What's your total income?"

jensnockert — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 02:14:09 +0000

ERP Programmer in Malmö Sweden

~$60,000 (working 4 days per week)

New comment by jensnockert in "Ask HN: Would You Upgrade to the New MacBook Pro?"

jensnockert — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 10:12:04 +0000

The main thing that's holding me back is the smaller battery, everything else seems pretty good to me.

New comment by jensnockert in "The case for memory-mapped GPU assets"

jensnockert — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 18:44:20 +0000

The SLI bridge is quite slow though, even the updated SLI bridge is just 2GB/s.

New comment by jensnockert in "AMD releases FireRays 2.0 ray-tracing library as open source"

jensnockert — Tue, 17 May 2016 09:55:02 +0000

Because Cycles is a rendering engine, while FireRays is a ray intersection acceleration library. Cycles could opt to use FireRays for ray intersection if they wanted to, but most uses of FireRays probably could never use Cycles since need a rendering engine with entirely different capabilities (real-time &c.)

New comment by jensnockert in "Atom Reaches 1M Active Monthly Users"

jensnockert — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:43:25 +0000

Write 'normal' text for example, also if you're including CJK-strings in your app it is kind of nice if they are not rendered as teensy or on top of each other.

New comment by jensnockert in "Don't use the greater than sign in programming"

jensnockert — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 11:53:54 +0000

Except then you start using floating-point and then the transformations do not work anymore.

> 1 < nan

=> false

> nan > 1

=> false

New comment by jensnockert in "Eve: Valkyrie Alpha – Hands-On with an Oculus Rift app"

jensnockert — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:41:59 +0000

Considering the physics of EVE: Online, I would be surprised if what you're asking for isn't roughly what EVE: Valkyrie will be.

Due to space-magic in the engines every ship pretty much acts like there is some sort of fluid filling all of space, and EVE is surprisingly non-empty when it comes to obstacles.

New comment by jensnockert in "Cxx.jl: C++ interpreter embedded in Julia"

jensnockert — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:18:36 +0000

While cool, it isn't nearly as cool as the current title (Cxx.jl: C++ interpreter embedded in Julia) implies, since it is not a C++ interpreter. A more reasonable title could be "The Julia C++ Foreign Function Interface" like the subtitle of the project.

New comment by jensnockert in "Ask HN: Which open source projects have kind, supportive, talented teams?"

jensnockert — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 21:51:28 +0000

Rust is generally awesome.

New comment by jensnockert in "“Stop Spotify from waking computer up”"

jensnockert — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 23:25:53 +0000

Yeah, started happening to me last week (roughly?)

Seems like either a shitty business decision, or really terrible QA.

New comment by jensnockert in "Ask HN: What are your opinions and experiences coding on a 13“ or 15” laptop?"

jensnockert — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 14:12:23 +0000

I use a 13" without an external screen for most coding and like it, just like many people say, it's easier to focus on one thing if you can't have more than two files open at the same time for me.

The computer is fast enough, the two extra cores are probably helpful, but the 13" is fast enough.

New comment by jensnockert in "ARM immediate value encoding"

jensnockert — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:46:49 +0000

It's even more complicated than that, since the cache doesn't have to cache encoded instructions, they can actually store decoded instructions, and a few of the caches on a modern x86 cpu actually does that, for example there's a loop cache after the decoders, so that small loops never have to be decoded more than once.

New comment by jensnockert in "ARM immediate value encoding"

jensnockert — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 10:20:56 +0000

Well… there's other issues than just making code smaller, the idea with having a fixed length instruction size is making the decoder simpler.

Decoding enough instructions to feed a wide issue machine is really hard on x86 and can require loads of power due to the ISA, while if you have fixed or semi-fixed size instructions (like thumb), it is much easier.

You can design ISAs that are made for wide issue, cheap decoding, and compact encoding at the same time, but unfortunately it required asking questions that just was not available to the MIPS/ARM/x86 designers. Out of order execution superscalar processors just weren't invented yet.

New comment by jensnockert in "Ask HN: What books are you reading?"

jensnockert — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 19:50:23 +0000

Romance of the Three Kingdoms, not sure why, but I have this tingling feeling that it holds some hints and tidbits about Chinese culture and history.

New comment by jensnockert in "Ask HN: How do you deal with getting older?"

jensnockert — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:41:55 +0000

I'm 25 and feels lost in a culture that hails 20 year olds that are dreaming up the next big thing.

I don't think age is the important thing here, I have worked with people of all ages (15-70 or so) that I look up to and learned a lot from. Experience is important, and it is hard to have experienced a lot of things if you are 20.

On a semi-related note, all my best bosses have been parents, having kids seem to teach you something about the value of time.